BART 93A06 - Power as Position: a Comics Workshop

This comics workshop approaches power and minority as shifting positions rather than fixed identities.

Participants are invited to explore how power operates, circulates, and is negotiated in everyday situations — whether through economic conditions (class, labor, precarity), social structures (gender, race, migration, disability), political frameworks (citizenship, surveillance, censorship), or mental and emotional processes (internalized oppression, fear, shame, burnout).

Using comics as a narrative and analytical tool, the workshop encourages participants to connect personal experiences with broader structures, without aiming to illustrate theory or produce explanatory discourse.

The focus is on observation, positioning, and storytelling: how power is felt, perceived, resisted, or reproduced, and how minority positions can emerge, disappear, or transform depending on the situation.

Participants may work from lived experience, fiction, or imagined scenarios.

No prior experience with comics is required. The workshop is open to participants regardless of their familiarity with the medium.

1°) 20% Comic strips: exercise 1

2°) 20% Comic strips: exercise 2

3°) 60% Final project: a two-page comic on the theme